bash: opening multiple files in for loop

Question

I want to open all the images in a small directory containing a small number of arbitrary, each image in its own window that has rotate and zoom controls.

I have tried eog,eom,imagemagick,gimp,shotwell... with <app> *.jpg& with no satisfactory results. Usually the application opens only one window. Eye of Gnome/MATE offer --new-instance but this does not provide multiple instances.

I am trying now this :

 for f in $(ls *jpg);do open $f;done;

But this stops and waits after the first open.

I try

 for f in $(ls *jpg);do open $f&;done;

But this is an error

 bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'

How can I do this?

I have a workaround :

ls *jpg > ims

and then edit ims to produce

eom -n 20200109_144447.jpg&
eom -n 20200109_144804.jpg&
eom -n 20200109_150828.jpg&
eom -n 20200109_150845.jpg&
eom -n 20200109_150853.jpg&

and then issue :

 bash ims

This gets me what I'm looking for, but I'd like a one step solution.

UPDATE:

steeldriver points to the error in my command. This works:

 for f in *jpg;do eom -n $f & done;

Note the removal of the expansion $() and of the second semicolon in the command.